Author and playwright, Born Lancashire. Wrote 'The Hundred and One Dalmations' and 'I Capture the Castle'.
Born Lancashire but in 1910 her mother remarried and they moved to London. Did some acting and script-writing but still needed in 1923 to take a job as the toy-buyer for Heal's, where she took the chairman, Ambrose Heal as her lover. Here she also met her future husband Alec Macbeth Beesley.
Died at home in Essex, leaving £2,000 for the care of Charley, her seventh and last Dalmatian.
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Dodie Smith
The St Marylebone Society Dodie Smith, 1895 - 1990, author and playwright, l...
Poet and essayist. Born Henry Austin Dobson at Plymouth, Devon. He spent his entire working life at the Board of Trade. His first poems were published in 1868. In 1876 he and a group of other poets...
Novelist, playwright and essayist. Wrote "When we are married" and "An Inspector Calls".
Businessman and author. Born in Trieste (then part of Austria-Hungary) as Aron Ettore Schmitz. The pseudonym translates as 'Swabian Italian', but as the only definitions of Swabian relate to places...
Actor, director, writer. Born Streatham.
